Tablet-holder



No. 6l9,89l.

Patented Feb. 2|, I899. W. C. KEELER & F. P. BARR.

TABLET HOLDER.

(Application fil ed Oct. 27, 1898. (No Model.)

11 MWY 4 UNITED STAT-Es PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM C. KEELER AND FRANK P. BARR, OF CANTON, OHIO.

TABLET-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 619,891, dated February21, 1899.

Application filed October 2'7, 1898. Serial No. 694,761. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it'known that we, WILLIAM C. KEELER and FRANK P. BARR, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Canton, in the county of Stark and Stateof Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tablet-Holders; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexeddrawings, making a part of this specification,and to the'figures ofreference marked thereon, in which Figure 1 is a view showing a portionof a case illustrating tablet-holders located therein. Fig. 2 is a viewshowing a portion of the holder. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of thetablet=holder,showing a tablet properly placed or connected thereto.Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section. Fig. 5 is a detached view of thetablet. Fig. 6 is a view showing the front end of the tablet-holder,also showing a portion of a tablet.

The present invention has relation to tablet-holders designed andcalculated for use in keeping the individual record of cars; and itconsists in the novel arrangement hereinafter described, andparticularly pointed out in the claims.

Similar numerals represent corresponding parts in all the figures of thedrawings.

In the accompanying drawings, 1 represents the block proper, which maybe of any desired length or width, reference being had to convenience inhandling and assembling the holders in a case such as illustrated orother proper receptacles. The upper face of the block 1 is provided withthe flanges 2, which flanges should extend the entire length of theblock 1, and, as shown, the flanges 2 are provided with the grooves 3,said grooves being located directly opposite each other and are for thepurpose of receiving the edges of the tablet 4. The front end of theblock is provided with the rounded or beveled portion 5 and the flanges2, extended or formed upon said beveled portion, as illustrated in thedrawings. The grooves 3 are also extended or formed in the flangeslocated upon the beveled end 5.

The object and purpose of extending the grooves 3 or forming saidgrooves in the beveled portion of the flanges is for the purpose ofguiding the tablet 4 so as to cause it to be bent down upon the beveledend.

The end or ends of the tablet are given a number, which number is tocorrespond with the number of the car of which the record is to be keptupon the tablet, or, in other words, each tablet is for a particularcar, and upon such tablet the record of the car is to be kept,

which record is to show or give the history of the movements and variouslocations of the car, and the block to which the tablet is connected isto be placed in a case, which may be arranged so that the various blockscan be easily and quickly located.

In connecting the tablet 4 it is entered into the grooves 3 at the rearend of the tablet and moved endwise until the front end of the tablet isbrought down and over the beveled end 5.

It will be understood that by providing the flanges 2 said flanges willbe extended a short distance above the grooves and also above the upperface of the tablet, by which arrangement a number of blocks providedwith tablets can be, placed one above the other, as illustrated in Fig.1, without causing the bottom or under side of the block to strike orbear against the upper face of the tablet, by which arrangement therecord will not be destroyed.

It will be understood that the tablets are to contain the record of thecar represented by the tablet, which record consists in locating carsreceived at any station or siding, contents of car, to whom assigned,date to unload and release, and forwarded out by train or transferred,or, in other Words, the record is to contain the full history of the carwhether used by the home road or other roads or roads operated bydifferent companies.

It will be understood that when a tablet has been filled it is to beremoved and a new one put in place.

If desired, the grooves 3 can be formed of sufficient size to allow oneor more tablets to be inserted in said grooves.

Having fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of the block 1 provided with grooved flanges formedupon the sides thereof, and the beveled end provided with groovedflanges, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of the block 1, flanges formed upon the block of alength to correspond substantially with the length of the block, groovesformed in the flanges, and one end of the block beveled and providedwith grooved flanges, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. As an improved article of manufacture, a tablet-holder consisting ofa block, grooved

